Award-winning journalist succumbs to COVID-19

Pablo Sanchez, an award-winning Washington broadcast correspondent and producer for Univision, died in late February after contracting COVID-19. He was a member pf the National Press Club for some 30 years and a frequent patron of the Club's Reliable Source restaurant.

A native of Columbia, Sanchez won an Emmy as a producer of "Saturday Magazine," a public-affairs program during his tenure at WTOP, now WUSA Channel 9. He started his long-time Washington, D.C., career at WTOP and worked at WJLA Channel 7 as a public-affairs producer and reporter before returning to Channel 9. 

He joined the Spanish International Network (now Univision) and helped start and co-hosted “Hablemos de Salud,” a national Spanish-language medical call-in program. He retired from Univision after some 30 years with the network.

In 2015, he was inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of making significant contributions to the broadcast or cable industry for more than 25 years.

Friends, colleagues and family especially recall his keen sense of humor. Survivors include his wife, Liliana.